If you’re right Pete, and I don’t think you are on the ECHR and sorting out immigration, then the strategy should be to recruit a proper army of non Muslims and get ready for civil war.
Too negative. Leaving the ECHR and human rights laws is a given and I relish us falling out with the EU. Sorry I will not entertain another Tory lite party. I want drastic action and the quicker the better. Reform have to be the start of the solution and we can build from that.
Agree with you. No one is in doubt that turning the ship around won’t be very difficult. Knowing what to do is the easy bit, execution will be tough. Pete’s far too negative and he’s wrong about the ECHR. Of course the EU will play up again but that edifice is on the verge of collapse and member states will look at leaving the ECHR too. We have to start somewhere and that’s with a Reform government.
As I'm used to saying "If you think Farage is the answer you are asking the wrong question."
Whoever forms the next government they need to know they govern on be behalf of the majority which is why since 2012 I've kept the flame of this alive.
Pete, as usual, nailed it about Reform and Farage. Farage thinks that Reform is a one man personality party and will work against anyone who looks like a threat to his personal success; ie anyone who tries to put the party on an intellectual foundation through actual, well thought out, policies.
Anyone we chose would be a bad bet. That’s the point. No British politician I know of is up to it. If I had to play ‘Fantasy Dictatorship’ I’d choose Trump’s current cabinet.
To be a Reform candidate somone has only to pass vetting (i.e. no problem tweets or facebook posts, no criminal record). There is no creed to support, no idoelogical or policy conformity to check, no political experience required, just headline soundbites to parrot.
If you’re right Pete, and I don’t think you are on the ECHR and sorting out immigration, then the strategy should be to recruit a proper army of non Muslims and get ready for civil war.
Too negative. Leaving the ECHR and human rights laws is a given and I relish us falling out with the EU. Sorry I will not entertain another Tory lite party. I want drastic action and the quicker the better. Reform have to be the start of the solution and we can build from that.
Agree with you. No one is in doubt that turning the ship around won’t be very difficult. Knowing what to do is the easy bit, execution will be tough. Pete’s far too negative and he’s wrong about the ECHR. Of course the EU will play up again but that edifice is on the verge of collapse and member states will look at leaving the ECHR too. We have to start somewhere and that’s with a Reform government.
I agree, but these are just words. We can talk about these things until we are blue in the face, but nothing will happen.
As I'm used to saying "If you think Farage is the answer you are asking the wrong question."
Whoever forms the next government they need to know they govern on be behalf of the majority which is why since 2012 I've kept the flame of this alive.
https://harrogateagenda.org.uk/
Pete, as usual, nailed it about Reform and Farage. Farage thinks that Reform is a one man personality party and will work against anyone who looks like a threat to his personal success; ie anyone who tries to put the party on an intellectual foundation through actual, well thought out, policies.
2029 will be too late. We need changes now.
Yes, but how? 'We' have such little power.
Love reading your stuff Peter - thought provoking as ever. Just have a free nice sentence or two and I'll leave it at that for today.
You know my thoughts on Reform - let's do a 'humbug show' just before Xmas.
Democracy is overrated. We need a period of direct rule.
Ha! Good one. Nothing like a dictatorship to sort us out!!
It’s what the Romans would have done.
By who - Corbyn?!
‘Whom’
Thank you - so by whom - Corbyn, Blair or someone else?
Anyone we chose would be a bad bet. That’s the point. No British politician I know of is up to it. If I had to play ‘Fantasy Dictatorship’ I’d choose Trump’s current cabinet.
To be a Reform candidate somone has only to pass vetting (i.e. no problem tweets or facebook posts, no criminal record). There is no creed to support, no idoelogical or policy conformity to check, no political experience required, just headline soundbites to parrot.
Great post as always.
Very minor points. There is no such thing as 'International Law'. There are international agreements.
An aside, there is no such thing as an 'illegal war'. Declared by who (whom)? The law in my house is different to the law in your house.
No.